Brazil Takes Step Toward Joining Nuclear-powered Sub Club

Brazil on Friday launched the first of five attack submarines built with French  technology in a 35 billion-real ($8.9 billion) program planned to end in 2029 with delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine.  President Michel Temer and his successor, President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, both pressed the button that lowered into the sea the 1,700-ton submarine named Riachuelo at a Rio de Janeiro naval base. Temer's wife, Marcela,...

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